Commentary

Wed
02
Aug

Speaking Out for Louisiana Citizens

Speaking Out for Louisiana Citizens

( Newsworthy Articles and My Opinion)

POPULATION CHANGE Over the past three years, more people died than were born across threefourths of Louisiana. This hasn’t happened in a long time. The researcher who announced this was Dr. Tim Slack, an LSU demographer. He examined each parish between 2020 and 2022 and found parishes across almost all corners of Louisiana failed to have enough babies to keep up with the people they lost to the cemetery.

There were a few exceptions, such as areas in suburban South Louisiana, the Fort Polk area, Bossier Parish and Lincoln Parish where Ruston and Louisiana Tech University are located. But with so many other parishes going in the other directions, Louisiana had just 414 more births than deaths over the past three years.

This could mean big problems in the years to come, especially for our children.

Wed
02
Aug

My partner is trying to make me seem crazy. Am I crazy?

My partner is trying to make me seem crazy. Am I crazy?

The mind games abuser play can make a survivor feel like he or she is losing their mind. The effects can be longer lasting than physical abuse. In a survivor’s mind, when an abuser is being physically violent, it is clear that the abuser is causing this with psychological abuse, the perpetrator makes the victim believe he or she is the cause. This makes the survivor’s mind work against them-and that they’d be crazy to think otherwise. In essence, the perpetrator is consistently questioning their victim’s reality and at the same time are often isolating them, leaving the victim confused, plagued by self-doubt and feeling like they are going crazy. This phenomenon of gaslighting or chronically second guessing someone is a classic part of the domestic violence dynamic. An overwhelming 85% of people who participated in a survey after calling into the National Domestic Violence Hotline said their abusers have called them crazy and it doesn’t stop there.

Wed
26
Jul

Social Security Matters

by National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American Citizens

Ask Rusty – How Do We Apply for My Wife’s Spousal Benefit?

Wed
26
Jul

Speaking Out for Louisiana Citizens

Speaking Out for Louisiana Citizens

( Newsworthy Articles and My Opinion)

STUDENT LOAN President Biden once again exemplified that he is determined to make student loans for college a new entitlement scheme, even after the Supreme Court struck down his $430 billion cancellation. It’s been referred to as buying votes of young people and the support of the university class without a vote or even a debate in Congress. President Biden’s student loan plan ignores the High Court’s major questions doctrine, which holds that executive actions with major consequences require approval from Congress. It also ignores Congress’s power of the purse. Let’s hope there is another legal challenge. The taxpayers need the money in other ways.

Wed
26
Jul

Life is always changing

No doubt life is always changing. If you don’t like the weather it will change, eventually. It’s been hot most all over but cooler weather will come. In most of the country, cooler weather will be welcomed sooner rather than later.

An Arizona friend told me last week, “One hundred degrees is actually nice in our area. One hundred and twenty degrees is unbearable.” Across our country, Europe and Asia record temperatures have been recorded and for the longest periods of time.

When it’s icy cold weather we hope and wish for warm weather. The problem in many of our areas is that we don’t have much moderately cool weather or moderately warm. It seems to either be blazing hot or freezing cold.

It’s hard to be satisfied. We get too hot and then we get too cold. Triple digit heat is insane and so is below zero. No one wants either one.

Wed
19
Jul

Social Security Matters

Ask Rusty – My State Pension Eliminated My Social Security Survivor Benefit Dear Rusty: My husband of 21 years died in January 2022 at the age of 70. We were both retired at the time of his death, and they immediately stopped his Social Security payments. After many calls to Social Security asking why I was not receiving his benefits, I was finally told since I have my own pension from the State of Ohio that I would receive none of my husband’s Social Security.

Wed
19
Jul

Speaking Out for Louisiana Citizens

Speaking Out for Louisiana Citizens

GOVERNOR’S RACE No question about it. Attorney General Jeff Landry holds the big lead in this race. He’s launching a new state-wide million dollar advertising program, as you are reading this. This will certainly give him more of an advantage. With his finances he can go on TV and that’s a big plus. The only other candidates for governor who have gone on T.V. are Stephen Waguespack, a Republican and the former Louisiana Business & Industry President, and State Treasurer John Schroder, a Republican. The Democrat side seems to be sewed up with former Louisiana Transportation Secretary Shawn Wilson. He is an Afro-American who has the endorsement of the governor.

Wed
19
Jul

Notes from an Old Bible

Habakkuk 3:17-18 “Through the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, and I will joy in the God of my salvation.”

What is the most difficult experience you’ve weathered in your life? What event if ever has affected you emotionally? Maybe the loss of someone special to you, a child, spouse, parent, maybe a violent act done to you, maybe ignored, rejected, put down by someone you love, the consequences of a sin you committed? Now think back at your thoughts about God at that difficult time in your life. Did you pray? If you did, did you pray with anger? Did you pray with tears? Did you pray with a broken heart?

Wed
12
Jul

Speaking Out for Louisiana Citizens

Speaking Out for

( Newsworthy Articles and My Opinion)

EDWARDS VETOES BILL Governor John Bel Edwards vetoed a bill this week that would have banned gender-transition treatment for minors. Why the governor would oppose a bill that can harm our children, mutilate their bodies for life is beyond speculation. Many feel like it is basically because the home office (Democrat Headquarters in Washington) told him to do so. If a child feels like their gender is wrong, the bill would have prevented the gender transition. At this time, they are older with the benefits of parents and proper counseling.

Apparently, state lawmakers will decide to return to the Capitol for a veto session beginning on July 18th. If so, a two-thirds approval from the state house and senate would be needed to override the governor’s veto.

Wed
12
Jul

Notes from an Old Bible

Free will or the freedom to make our own choices is a particularly important issue in our society. Every day each of us chooses to do things that we do unless we are in a situation where we have been stripped of our freedom and then must do as those in control of us command. Case being a person in prison or enslaved by force in a society. Even in those circumstances a person still freedom to make certain choices although they may be limited. However, no matter what our choices are today they are ultimately creating our future because every choice that we make will either cause us to be blessed or cursed. Things will either get better or worst for us. All choices have consequences and are our responsibilities.

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